Capitalism-Hating Marxist Professor Rakes In $170,000 Per Year At U. Wisconsin

The Daily Caller ^ | 08/21/2015 | Eric Owens

[george76]

One of the leading lights of Marxism on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison brings home a sweet salary of $170,000 per year.

The well-heeled sociology professor is Erik Olin Wright .. The tenured, capitalism-hating professor’s annual salary of $170,000 is $117,587 greater than the household income of a typical Wisconsin family and is in the top 2 percent of all Americans.

Whil an average middle-class family in Wisconsin survives on $4,368 per month, the Marxist professor enjoys a cushy monthly income of $14,166.

He will teach exactly two courses in the fall semester for this princely sum.

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The Marxist professor has required students in his courses to watch “An Inconvenient Truth,” the documentary which follows Al Gore around as he jets to several places to sound the alarm about global warming

[Bullish]

So in other words, they’re paying a turd 170k.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I’ll bet da boy spends over half of his salary (Oops! A filthy capitalist pig word. ) on keeping his Little Orphan Annie “do” looking good.

[familyop]

One of many examples of self-described “makers” and “taxpayers” in politics today. And like so many other socialists, he expresses hatred against Scott Walker: the only candidate who has a record of cutting much government spending.

[The people have spoken]

He is a teacher and is paid $170,000. a year. He is nothing more. Oh, a pain in the ass, but nothing more.

If he were only a teacher, he wouldn't even get 100K. With a salary like that, he must be bringing in big bucks in the form of a federal grant to support his research and provide overhead to the university.

[Da Coyote]

Sorry, but given his area of expertise, he is no professor.

Never will be.

[GnuThere]

And that’s just his salary! Between his TENURED bennies, retirement, healthcare and so on, he’s scamming WI for millions. Sick.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Unconsionable salary paid to UW professor to pollute our children’s minds.

FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

One major reason college tuitions are out of sight.

Idea: How about posting this commie creep’s home address at illegal aliens centers so that they can go get a free room?

I’m sure the “good” professor is willing to “share” his capitalist largesse with the “poor of the earth”, esp. in his own home.

Please send photos of how he helps them get a new home.

Waiting!!!!!

[mjp]

While an average middle-class family in Wisconsin survives on $4,368 per month, the Marxist professor enjoys a cushy monthly income of $14,166.

rich commies don't think that they are hypocrites. They think that all the oppressed and exploited workers should make as much as they do.

[Brown Deer]

WHAT IS one to make of this morass? Wright seems to know nothing about the history of utopian thought, communities, or cooperatives. He refers to exactly one book in the utopian tradition, Martin Buber’s 1949 Paths in Utopia. Buber’s book closed with a discussion of the kibbutz, a subject that would seem to call out to Wright. After all, the kibbutz is a “real utopia” with a socialist ethos and decades of practice. Are there lessons to be found here? Daniel Gavron’s suggestive book The Kibbutz, subtitled “Awakening from Utopia,” sought to appraise its past and future. Wright says nothing about the kibbutz or the literature on it. Nor does he say much about the “real utopias” in Brazil, Canada, and Spain. He says little about anything. The empirical information he provides is perfunctory at best. His command of Marxism seems limited. His historical reach extends to his own earlier works. His vast theoretical apparatus is jimmy-rigged and empty. The graphs are inane, the writing atrocious. To call this book dull as dish water maligns dish water.
~~ Russell Jacoby, Winter 2011

[Fred Hayek]

Can you say hypocrite?

He laments the overabundance of white college professors like him. So why doesn’t he quit and take a fast food job?

[twoputt]

Madison: 35 square miles surrounded by reality.

[Brown Deer]

Erik Olin Wright: Analytical Marxism

[Soul of the South]

The liberal professor teaches two classes which means he is in the classroom only 6 hours per week (2 three hour classes). Likely he recycles lectures he wrote years ago and has graduate teaching assistants to administer and grade exams. Even if devotes one hour per day to office hours for student, he is still devoting only 11 hours per week to his teaching role. The remaining 29 hours per week he is likely agitating or earning outside money (consulting, speeches, grant work).

State employee professors are paid for a 40 hour week. In the private sector a $170,000 per year senior manager or executive will put in 60-70 hours per week.

Assuming the professor works 48 weeks per year, his effective pay rate for the 6 hours he actually spends in the classroom teaching is $590 per hour. Nice wages by any standard. Certainly upper 1% on an hourly basis for a hypocrite who rails against wealth and affluence.

Governor Walker has been trying to force tenured professors in Wisconsin to teach 3 classes per semester which means 9 hours per week in the classroom instead of 6. The academic establishment and leftist Democrat politicians have been fighting him claiming 9 hours per week in the classroom is too much and will be detrimental to “research” and writing. Perhaps they have forgotten the primary mission of state supported schools is instruction of students, not subsidizing the interests of the faculty.

The cost of higher education in this nation has exploded due to the large number of tenured professors performing actual teaching duties in the classroom less than 20% of a 40 hour week plus the hiring of layers of equally unproductive administrators.

If only a courageous governor would take on the academic establishment by overhauling an entire state university system. Slash the bureaucracy, eliminate tenure, and require all professors to be in the classroom at least 15 hours per week (i.e. teach 5 classes per week). Increasing the teaching load from 2 classes to 5 classes will allow a state university to cut at least 50% of the teaching staff. Make a similar cut to the bloated administrative staff and state universities will be able to slash tuition and fees benefiting the middle class and the taxpayers.

The private sector in America has gone through waves of downsizing over the past 20 years. At the same time state supported universities have been on an expansion boom and the cost of a college education has increased at double the rate of inflation. Time for higher education to downsize. Will a GOP governor - Walker, Jindall, Haley, Kasich, McCrory - go after the fat and drive performance? It will take bold decisive action, not tiny cuts combined with more government subsidies, to bend the cost curve in higher education.

[nhbob1]

Looks like a constipated Art Garfunkel

[JLS]

Too late and now tenure protects the few conservatives in higher education.

[griswold3]

silly folks, Marxism is for the little people. This professor considers himself as one of the chosen elite, of course.

[353FMG]

>He will teach exactly two courses in the fall semester for this princely sum. ...... <

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He will probably not teach anything the fall semester but will have some foreign graduate student do it for him whom American students can hardly understand.

[apoliticalone]

This well paid professor like every other academic elite in the club gets to send their kids to college at minimal expense. They have no incentive to cut costs for others because they have only minimal costs themselves. Others face major debt while foreign students and kids of academics are on a different tuition cost schedule.

America has allowed crony capitalism and political corruption to overtake our country. We need to make our country great again.

[pepsionice]

I would agree with most of what you have to say...except for the academic research and writing. Over the past hundred years, we’ve built the whole university education system into a ‘must-reproduce’ organization and the players must continually go out and write papers or books on things that may or may not have value.

I do think the whole tenure business needs a review and a rebuild is in order. If the state is unable to control or manipulate the university system within it....then the state needs to detach the university and force them into a private operation (hint: massive tuition costs).